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We’re honored

By Bill Adair
October 3, 2008

We’re honored that

PC World

has named us one of ”

The 100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites

.” PolitiFact was included in the category ”

5 Sites That Will Boost Your Political Awareness

.”

We have to confess that we also checked out the magazine’s list of

Most Useless Sites

and were intrigued by the

Meet-an-Inmate

one.

We’re also proud to have been named a winner last month in the

2008 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism

. The grand prize winner was Wired’s cool WikiScanner coverage, which showed how companies were altering their Wikipedia entries. PolitiFact won a Special Distinction award.

We’re honored to be honored!

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PC World, Knight-Batten Awards.

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